Population
Two cohorts of 70-year-old people in Göteborg, Sweden
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
12 years (first cohort) and 5 years (second cohort)
Authors
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Polypharmacy rises sharply by age 82 with poor indication knowledge; hypothesis-generating for deprescribing trials, should not yet change practice.
Drug consumption and polypharmacy increase significantly with age in the elderly, accompanied by poor patient knowledge of drug indications.
Sten Landahl (1987) studied this question.
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